“When you’re playing every three or four days on a constant basis you need to freshen things up, whether that’s with a couple of changes or a few more, depending on what the manager wants to do. You need everyone as fresh as can be, really, to share the load, so in that sense I feel it is certainly the strongest squad I’ve been part of.

“I look around at the quality of the people we’ve got coming on in games and people who are not even on the bench. It’s strong and that can only be a plus for us hopefully. But every game is difficult in the Premier League and every team seems to be getting better every year.

“There are some top teams with amazing players and top managers throughout the league, clubs that are improving because they’re investing well and buying well in the transfer window.

“Tactically, things have changed as well, which has improved things, so I’d say the Premier League is getting stronger. That makes it difficult to win it but we’ve come on leaps and bounds over the last couple of years and we’re in a position now where we can really challenge.

“It’s down to us to go out there and do the business every weekend.”

Henderson moved to Liverpool FC in a £20m deal from Sunderland in the 2011 summer transfer window during Kenny Dalglish’s second spell in charge of the Merseyside outfit.

The England international inherited the captain’s armband from Steven Gerrard in 2015 after the Liverpool FC legend called time on his Reds career to move to Major League Soccer.

Henderson will hope to skipper Liverpool FC against Huddersfield Town on Saturday evening.